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Renaissance and Reformation in N. Europe
Reformation in N. EuropeCauses for the Reformation
1. Abuse of wealth and power by the church
2. Political issues
3. Theological issues
4. Humanism
5. Renaissance
6. Science
Some of the Reformers:Luther, Zwingli, Calvin,
Flemish Paintings
• Perfected oil painting
• Modeling with light and shade
• Great detail
• Florentine head-start in the north
• Use of windows, doors, and mirrors
Van Eyck’s Arnolfini and His Bride
Campin’s Altarpiece
Dutch Painting
Bosch The Garden of Delights 1510-15
Bruegel Peasant Wedding 1565
German painting
Durer Self-Portrait 1500
DurerThe Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse 1497
Durer St. Michael and Dragon
DürerSt. Jerome in His Study
1514
Albrecht DurerKnight, Death and the Devil
1513
Science
• Wm. Gilbert—magnet north poles
• Wm. Harvey—circulate of blood
• John Napier—logarithms
• Paracelsus—modern medicine
• Copernicus—earth wasn’t the center of the universe
Literature
• Sir Thomas More (friend of Erasmus) Utopia parallel’s Plato’s Republic.
• Edmund Spenser-poet and author of The Faerie Queene
• Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) tragic death in a bar at 29
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616) interested in history and
psychological motivation thru the use of the soliloquy.